JOB SUMMARY
When Applied Industrial Technologies, one of the country's largest distributors of power transmission components, replacements bearings and related specialty items, decided to build a new corporate headquarters, the company wanted to combine its current five-building operation into one consolidated operation. The main goal was to portray a timeless quality with an image of a future-driven, technological-oriented company.

Together with the firm of GSI Architects, contractor Turner Construction Company and glazing contractor Architectural Product Sales Company, Dan Rogers and Mike Rubner of Vistawall were able to design a wall system which supports the overall architectural design of a dynamic structure that represents a building of the future.

Dimensional structural requirements were met with the CW-600 and W-250 wall systems accommodating 1-inch vision and 1/4-inch spandrel glass. The CW-600 allowed the glass to be set from the interior. Vertical structural glazing and special bull nosed face caps were also aesthetic elements of the curtain wall system.

A sweeping fin implies motion and enhances the futuristic design hinged around the two main office buildings. This fin moved in an elliptical pattern along the segmented wall required Vistawall to use complex engineering methods to layout and fabricate the curtain wall. Vistawall was also able to provide anchor supports for these fins within the curtain wall design, without the need for additional and costly structural framing.

Project manager for Vistawall was Steve Entrekin.